So who do we think the greatest orators of all time were/are?

Unironically Hitler

>>2575130
Think he was better than Napoleon? Nap had a pretty strong second act after his exile.

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Pindar.

Guy starts ranting about the history of gods and civilizations and somehow manages to tie it in to how some guy did a good job at the Olympics.

That's a fucking gift.

>>2575149
Did he perform the works himself?

>>2575220
Most of the time yeah, and sometimes he had music and choreographic accompaniment. Dude was a rockstar. He would even toot his own horn in the middle of an ode on occasion.

Definitely Pericles.He managed to be elected again and again in a city-state that would ostracize even the greatest of their men because of something unimportant.They also dragged each other to court all fucking day long for no real reason, hence the term Sycophant.So being able to rule Athens for so long without being ostracized,assassinated,poisoned,dragged to court falsely, is a pure indication to how good of an orator he was.
A small sample of his greatness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles'_Funeral_Oration

>>2575249
Ha, that's pretty entertaining. From what I'm reading about him, everyone seemed to think he was the shit. Good pull throwing this dude's name out there.

>>2575121
Donald J. Trump

>>2575268
Ah yeah, I've read Thucydides' History of the Pelopponesian War. Didn't think about this guy though, good call. Dude was a serious operator.

>>2575276
Not sure if you're serious, but I don't think he rates up there even in the upper-middle of greatest of all time. He didn't even get that many Americans on side. It's easy to preach to the choir once someone reaches a certain proficiency of speech making. I meant more people who could persuade others who were not already necessarily aligned with their point of view.

>>2575121
Cicero absolutely destroyed Sardinians